"There is no question that under the Equal Rights Amendment there will be debates at times, indecision at times, litigation at times. Has anyone proposed that we rescind the First Amendment on free speech because there is too much litigation over it? Has anyone suggested the same for the Fourteenth Amendment I don't suppose there has ever been a constitutional amendment with so much litigation?"

-- Frances Farenthold

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“I'm way more comfortable around kids than I am people my own age.”
“Because we do not rest we lose our way...Poisoned by the hypnotic belief that good things come only through unceasing determination and tireless effort, we never truly rest. And for want of rest, our lives are in danger.”
“When you're at the end of your rope, all you have to do is make one foot move out in front of the other. Just take the next step. That's all there is to it”
“A message to the best football supporters in the world. We need a 12th man here. Where are you? Where are you? Let's be having you. Come on!”
“Planned Parenthood has a right to operate. Planned Parenthood has a right to provide family planning services. Planned parenthood has a right to perform abortions.”

Source : "Democratic Congresswoman Jackie Speier Talks About Her Terminated Pregnancy" by Ryan Grim, Nick Wing, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 18, 2011.
“Our system of government is one of checks and balances. It requires compromise.. compromise between the Executive and the Parliament, compromise between one House and another, compromise between the States and the Commonwealth and compromise between groups of persons with legitimate interests and other groups with other legitimate interests. There is room for compromise.. indeed demand for it.. in a system of checks and balances.”
“I paint my own reality.”
“'The Goonies' is the one that everyone either remembers themselves or their children are seeing now.”

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